Is personal growth initiative associated with later life satisfaction in Chinese college students? A 15-week prospective analysis

Edward C. Chang; Hongfei Yang; Shangwen Yi; Fei Xie; Jiting Liu; Haining Ren; Jiaqi Zhang; Zhuoran Zhang; Runzhe Wu; Yijing Lin; Mingqi Li; Kaidi Wu; Ka Ip; Abigael G. Lucas; Olivia D. Chang

doi:10.1111/ajsp.12386

Is personal growth initiative associated with later life satisfaction in Chinese college students? A 15-week prospective analysis

Edward C. Chang, Hongfei Yang, Shangwen Yi, Fei Xie, Jiting Liu, Haining Ren, Jiaqi Zhang, Zhuoran Zhang, Runzhe Wu, Yijing Lin, Mingqi Li, Kaidi Wu, Ka Ip, Abigael G. Lucas, Olivia D. Chang

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Personal growth initiative (PGI) is presumed to foster positive change leading to positive psychological adjustment. Accordingly, in this study we examined PGI as a predictor of life satisfaction 15 weeks later in a sample of 152 Chinese college students. Time 1 PGI was found to explain a significant amount of unique variance in Time 2 life satisfaction, even after controlling for Time 1 life satisfaction and Time 2 PGI. Specifically, (lower) intentional behavior and planfulness at baseline emerged as significant predictors of later life satisfaction. No evidence was found indicating that life satisfaction at Time 1 accounted for any significant amount of unique variance in PGI processes at Time 2, after controlling for baseline PGI processes and concurrent life satisfaction. Overall, the present findings are the first to demonstrate the importance of PGI as a prospective predictor of positive psychological adjustment in adults.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	413-418
Number of pages	6
Journal	Asian Journal of Social Psychology
Volume	22
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12386
State	Published - Dec 1 2019
Externally published	Yes

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Chinese
college students
life satisfaction
personal growth initiative
prospective design

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Chang, E. C., Yang, H., Yi, S., Xie, F., Liu, J., Ren, H., Zhang, J., Zhang, Z., Wu, R., Lin, Y., Li, M., Wu, K., Ip, K., Lucas, A. G., & Chang, O. D. (2019). Is personal growth initiative associated with later life satisfaction in Chinese college students? A 15-week prospective analysis. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 22(4), 413-418. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12386

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